On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu > wrote:
> > I need to prepare about 100 photos for ID's and class photo composites > for our incoming students; each got their picture taken at interview > time. > > The pictures are all taken at the same distance and zoom, waist-up > shots (thankfully, last year they weren't and we refused to touch that > mess!) so what I need to do is crop them all to the same size, for > just a head shot. I'll have to change what part of the photo is > cropped each time, but I need the cropped dimensions to always be the > same. > > IS there a way to define a set clipping region or cropping box then > apply it to each photo, move it around as necessary, then crop the > photos? > > I've poked around cursorily through Graphic converter and photoshop, > and while I can manually set the cropping box the same size in each > one, I cannot save this as a preset. > > _________________________________________________________ For Photoshop A. Make a "new" canvas specifying the size in the panel from the file menu. B. Save this file with the word template and the ssize in the title. C. Prepare a folder of the pictures to be processed and put them there. D. Familiarize yourself with the "transform selection" and the move tool. E. The sequence would go something like; 1.Open template__x__ 2.in layers window make a new layer . 3.select all > template__x__ 4.open photo 001 5, select all > photo 001 6, copy > photo 001 to clipboard 7 active > template __x__ 8.paste to > template__x__ 9.use the transformation tools to scale and position image to taste. (you might save the result of steps 1 to 8 as a folder of PSD files for doing this manually later as you say you need to position each individually.) . save file as to your chosen naming protocol.and format. . Study the help manual for setting up a macro. This is called automated actions. see; http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7452a.html Once the automated actions are recorded you can set the action in motion for the whole folder. as said you would probably want to save the file as a PSD for later manual scale and positioning of the individual file. PSD format is used as an intermediate step to allow keeping the layer to allow the transform. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
